Driving a jet dragster is just like taking off in a commercial flight, only a whole bunch faster according to West Australian drag racer Ian Wood.

Australia’s biggest drag racing event is set to get even bigger with the 2020 running of the Gulf Western Oil Winternationals expanded to five days.

Drag racing is full of amazing stories, but the tale of a jet dragster clocking over 400kmh in an Australian mining town might be one of the best.

The Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA) has welcomed the lifting of the suspension of Junior Drag Racing in Western Australia, announced by The Honourable Minister for Sport and Recreation, Mick Murray.

Australian drivers Jamie Noonan and Shane Tucker both made it through the first round of competition at the NHRA Carolina Nationals at Charlotte’s zMAX Dragway.

Noonan is a name associated with many Top Alcohol teams, supplying cylinder heads and engine blocks for much of the fields world over, but the company’s owner Jamie Noonan is no stranger to racing himself.

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Palmyra Dragway hosted the third and final round of the 2019 Summit Racing Queensland Championship at the weekend, with more than 100 racers taking part in the October 5 event.

Well-known and respected Australian Top Fuel crew member Ben Patterson has signed up to be part of the PremiAir Hire Racing team.

There’s a wild new Ford Barra-powered Holden Torana almost ready to hit the drag strip in Western Australia.

As the 2019 Summit Racing Queensland Championship heads to its exciting conclusion this weekend (Saturday October 5) at Palmyra Dragway, defending Super Street title winner Brett Kelly is once again leading the way in his category after taking victory at the last round.

No less than five national records were reset at the weekend’s Sunset Strip Nationals, hosted by Mildura’s Sunraysia Drag Racing Association across September 21 and 22.

Third generation drag racer Britney Olive is following in the footsteps of her family, turning a childhood spent watching the track at Sydney Dragway to an adult life racing on it. She’s our cover racer for this variety-packed issue of Drag News Magazine.

Pro Stock is getting a much needed injection of new blood this season with Darryl Stephen revealing a two car team.

Australian drag racer Jarrod Wood has shown off his brand new Radial vs The World Corvette for the first time.

The Australian National Drag Racing Association and South Coast Raceway are pleased to announce the addition of an extra round to the recently released 2019/2020 Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series calendar.

Kyle Hopf has built a precision vehicle capable of world class performances on a radial drag racing tyre, but he says his team’s Unlimited Radial victory at the 2019 Kenda Radial Riot was something of a ‘Bradbury’ performance.

The Aeroflow World Fuel Altered Challenge delivered two crazy-entertaining rounds of racing on Saturday at Sydney Dragway before the rain came down.

When the first three second radial tyre drag racing was made in Australia, targets quickly changed to the first 200mph run – but few would have predicted a driver with less than a dozen runs on a radial would be the one to make history.

Following a fantastic day one of qualifying for more than 150 racers in Mildura, the stage is now set for a full day of racing at the 2019 Sunset Strip Nationals.

Wade Wagstaff has continued to lay down the most impressive runs ever seen in Australian radial drag racing, setting a new record and taking out the Kenda Outlaw Radial Friday $5k.